Greetings to our Canadian friends and everyone in the North Country. By popular demand, I present you with the information you have been searching for.
Over at the Adirondack Guide, there’s a roundup of Lake Champlain Beaches. If you want to sample our beaches on Lake Champlain, a.k.a. “the Adirondack Coast“, give the list [...]

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Visitor Information for the Plattsburgh Beach

Click the link above for visitor information, the following information is old.
Update: City Beach Closes for the Year (8/21/06)
The Plattsburgh city beach is now closed for the season.
Plattsburgh faced budget cuts this year, so the beach opened later and closed earlier than usual.
The beach usually stays open through Labor Day [...]

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Apparently the TourPro wasn’t alone in questioning the closing of the Plattsburgh City Beach to swimming this summer. After deciding to cull lifeguards from the beach budget, it seems now that revenues from other recreational programs will be sufficient to support swimming at the beach. Mayor Dan Stewart announced that swimming would now [...]

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Update: City beach to reinstate swimming
After a minor rant about the wisdom of prohibiting swimming at the Plattsburgh City Beach, this morning’s editorial in our local press seems to echo many of my concerns. It almost seems like someone there actually ‘gets it’, but stops just short of pointing out the fact that [...]

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City beach cuts swimming
Update: City beach to reinstate swimming
It’s been awhile, but today’s news has woken the TourPro out of a late-Winter doldrum.
The alleged “city by the lake” has made another interesting strategic decision and I’m afraid tourism has again gotten the short end of the stick. Due to increasing costs of operation, [...]

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